Europe

Three British institutions included in new networks despite country’s vote for Brexit

The country’s increasingly similar universities also need to be forced to specialise, argues government advisory body

Planned securitisation deal aimed at improving student experience and ‘market share’, says v-c

Editors say episode demonstrates need for humans to review work of software

Augar’s failure to grasp the differential effect of government policy on different kinds of universities is his report’s Achilles heel, says Greg Walker

Chair of England’s post-18 review says £7,500 fee a cap a fair deal after ‘windfall’ years and that universities in financial trouble are guilty of ‘bad management’

Jane Hutton says that pension fund is trying to deny her ‘whistleblower’ status

Leeds accused of attempting to extend control of central management by ending practice of selecting heads of school from within the faculty

Sector leaders question why it has taken so long to address long-running decline in value of quality-related research funding

University leaders more likely to have attended Oxford or Cambridge compared with five years ago, but also to have gone to a comprehensive school

The Augar review should prompt the creation of a network of secular synagogues devoted to adult peer learning, says Tom Schuller

Sir Ian Diamond reportedly did not trigger his 12-month notice period until his departure from the university